Orders of the day not to be brought forward to an earlier date. Orders of the day unread. VIII. his absence, the question thereon may be moved by Chapter When the house has appointed a day for the consideration Same rule Orders of the day which, owing to the suspension of a sitting, or to an adjournment of the house, have not been S. O. 1, read at the table, are set down upon the notice paper after Appendix I, 1 354 H. D. 3 s. 1157. 2 Mr. Speaker's ruling (private), 13th May, 1886. So also on 21st Aug. 1893, Mr. Speaker said that he would decline to put the question for postponing the consideration of the Lords' amendments to the Wild Birds Protection Bill for three months except upon the motion of the member in charge of the bill. In the absence of the member in charge, a motion has sometimes been made, without notice, to discharge the order for the second reading of the bill. This practice has been strongly discountenanced from the chair, 22nd May, 1873, 216 H. D. 3 s. 276; 8th Nov. 1893, 18 Parl. Deb. 3 London, Chatham and Dover Vehicles Lights (No. 2) Bill, 31st July, 1893, 15 Parl. Deb. 4 s. 871. VIII. Chapter the orders of the day appointed for the next sitting of the house; subject to the right of the government to arrange the order of their business, whenever such business has priority.1 See also motions made, p. 277. New clauses, see p. 495. When this restriction applies to amendments, see pp. 289, 299. Procedure on motions.-Motions, not being on a matter of privilege (see p. 270), or for unopposed returns, are called over by the Speaker according to the order in which the notices stand upon the notice paper; and if a member does not rise when his name is called, he cannot subsequently ask that his name should be called again, for the purpose of moving the motion of which he had given notice. notice. A member of the government may act in behalf of a col- Motion orders. Revival of orders of the day.-When an order of the day Dropped has been read, the proceedings thereon may be cut short by the adjournment of the house whilst those proceedings are in course of transaction. An order of the day, in such a case, or if, when the order is read, no day is appointed for its future consideration, drops off the notice paper, as the house has made no order thereon; and in committee the same result may be produced, either by a failure of a quorum of the house, or by a resolution directing the 3 1 16th March, 1888, 323 H. D. 3 s. 1538. 2 On the 12th May, 1864, in the absence of Lord Palmerston, Sir G. Grey was permitted to move the postponement of the orders of the day, and make a motion relating to inspectors of schools. On the 28th Nov. 1867, in the absence of the chancellor of the exchequer, Mr. Hunt, the secretary of the treasury, made his financial statement in Superseded orders. VIII. charge, see chairman to leave une chair (see p. 390). To replace a Chapter An order of the day may be superseded by the vote of 1 Joint Stock Companies Bill, 22nd and 23rd June, 1864 176 H. D. 3 s. 99. 101; see also Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill, 119 C. J. 348. 351; 120 ib. 225. 352; 121 ib. 78; 122 ib. 377. 404; Supply, 125 ib. 280. 284; 145 ib. 305. 307. 2 10th Aug. 1877, Sale of Food, &c., Bill, 132 C. J. 434. 435; 8th Aug. 1878, Sale of Intoxicating Liquor (Ireland) Bill, 133 ib. 419. 424; 5th May, 1884, Redistribution of Seats Chapter an amendment, an immediate sitting of the committee can be appointed (see p. 611). VIII. meeting on Renewal of notices of motions.—A notice of motion standing upon the notice paper for the day's sitting which is not brought on before the adjournment of the house, disappears from the paper, unless the member in whose name the notice stands, or a member in his behalf, gives a direction at the table for the replacement of the notice upon the notice paper for a future day. Special arrangements for the transaction of government business. The precedence given to government business at every sitting and the allocation to government business of the whole of every sitting except two Fridays between Whitsuntide and Michaelmas have rendered unnecessary some of the arrangements that were made formerly, such as the appointment of morning sittings for government business on certain days of the week,' and the appropriation to it towards the close of the session of the whole time of the house. If the session be prolonged beyond Michaelmas, however, an order of the house is necessary if it be desired to appropriate the whole time to government business.3 Hour of A Saturday sitting may be obtained upon the motion of Saturday sittings. Saturdays, a minister of the Crown, namely, that the house shall sit see p. 213. on that day, or the appointment of an order of the day,1 Priority to orders of or of other matter of business for an ensuing Saturday, or day, see p. by a motion made on a Friday, that the house at its rising do adjourn till to-morrow. 259. 5 given to ness. Motions to facilitate the transaction of the business of Priority the house are, as has been explained (p. 256), set down upon governthe notice paper to be taken at the commencement of ment busipublic business. Priority is sometimes sought for government business, either generally or for specified orders of the day, whenever the same are set down upon the notice paper; and this object is attained, either by the actual suspension of a standing order, or by an order of the house 1145 C. J. 226. 239; 147 ib. 200. 3 16th Oct. 1902, 157 ib. 437 212 H. D. 3 s. 1953; 331 ib. S. O. 4. S. O. 15, Appendix I. Priority to a notice of motion over orders of the day. VIII. which prescribes a course of action inconsistent therewith Chapter It is prescribed by standing order that the appointment As on sittings devoted to government business, the government has the power to arrange their business, 1 On an occasion of this kind, the notices of motions and certain orders of the day, which were deprived of their priority on a Tuesday, were, by order, placed first upon the succeeding Thursday, 11th March, 1873, 128 C. J. 91. 2143 ib. 153. 169. 354; 147 ib. 325; 157 ib. 437; 159 ib. 30. 3 17th June, 1887, 316 H. D. 3 s. 417; 1st May, 1891, 352 ib. 1853. 157 C. J. 215; 158 ib. 49. 121. 153. 213. etc. Tuesday, 6th May, 1856, ad journed debate on the Treaty of |